Zhi Pan
Founding Engineer at Runbook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Pan is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with 11 years of experience building product-driven systems across startups and high-growth consumer platforms. Based in New York, he has held senior engineering roles at Discord and Airbnb and now helps shape Runbook from the ground up, bringing startup instincts honed as an early engineer at Mothership and Skurt. His background spans full-stack product work, large-scale real-time systems, and organizing technical communities—he helped run Cal Hacks, one of the world's largest hackathons. Zhi combines entrepreneurial risk-taking ("maximize variance") with pragmatic execution, often stepping into early-stage roles where shipping fast and iterating matters most. He holds computer science and statistics degrees from UC Berkeley, which underpin a data-informed approach to engineering trade-offs. An atypical detail: he repeatedly took gap years to join startups full-time, signaling a preference for immersive, hands-on product building over traditional timelines.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (28)
cal10
react6
jpeg6
android6
navigator6
css6
authentication6
javascript6
react-native6
firebase5
sdk-nodejs5
python5
resize5
ios5
admin4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Zhipan1/nelly-test
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:59 reviews, 14 PRs, 1 push in 9 days
calhacks/website2
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:120 commits, 9 PRs, 149 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cssjavascriptreactcal
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